41. Isabella 1
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Isabella was the author of Castile and Leon in medieval Spain
She's the queen. She's the queen who united Spain
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She was born as a princess of the Kingdom of Castile. In a situation where the political situation was unstable, her half-brother Enrique IV was crowned king, and after he was enthroned, Enrique IV expelled her stepmother, Queen Isabel, and her half-siblings from the palace and locked them up. As a result, the Isabel family lived a harsh life in captivity, being thoroughly monitored by the military and not receiving daily necessities on time. Her mother, Queen Isabel of Portugal, is said to have suddenly lived a life equivalent to imprisonment in a princess-turned-queen, and eventually caused insanity due to hatred and fear for her stepson, King Enrique. In this situation, young Isabel showed strong vitality in taking care of her insane mother and younger brother, doing laundry and cooking meals despite her status as a princess. It is said that the driving force that was able to overcome depression and despair was the Catholic faith. After the political situation was somewhat stabilized, the king called Isabel back to the palace with the intention of keeping her close to him and monitoring him. As the queen passed away and no successor was born for a long time, even for King Enrique, it became a card that could be used for a political marriage as a potential heir to the throne or a princess.
Isabel escaped the various doubts of Enrique IV because she was so competent that she gained an opportunity to educate herself at the age of adolescence, and later succeeded in becoming king after a long civil war. Of course, there was a lot of friction in the process of marrying Prince Fernando of the neighboring Kingdom of Aragon, but he was eventually killed by Enrique IV, and he beat all competitors such as Princess Juana, the daughter of King Enrique, to become the final winner.
Additionally, Isabel, along with her husband, Fernando, conquered Granada, the last Islamic kingdom in the south, completing the Reconquista. As an aside, since Fernando, a husband, spent a lot of time on the battlefield, the couple did not spend much time together, and Castile and Aragon were only Allied kingdoms and not unified until then, so the two were a couple and subtly in check with each other.
Despite all the opposition, Isabel supported Christopher Columbus by selling his treasures, and eventually discovered the New World America. There are many reasons why Queen Isabel sponsored Columbus so much. The various ways Columbus proved the route he believed he had, or there was a revelation in Queen Isabel's dream.[3] Money is also believed to be the reason for Columbus' support in the most realistic light. At the time, money was coming through Mediterranean trade and the money was coming through Africa trade in the neighboring country of Portugal, but Castile had not yet joined the ranks. Columbus was the one who finally showed up that he had prepared it, despite the need for a third route, neither a Mediterranean route nor an African route, to obtain an overseas trade route. And in reality, all the profits of this pioneering project came to Castile thanks to Isabel's so generous and support. Eventually, Castile, which originally had a larger territory, was effectively integrated. In any case, Queen Isabel's reckless investment, which seemed to be an outrageous gamble at the time, eventually made Spain the strongest in Europe.
His marriage has many episodes. When his half-brother King Enrique IV attempted to marry King Aponsu V of Portugal, who was nearly 20 years old, Princess Isabel, who was supported by aristocrats who opposed Enrique's servile diplomacy and La Cueva's monopoly on power, searched under the water for candidates for her husband and promised to marry Fernando, the prince of Aragon, a neighboring country, in the evening. In the process, they were chased by King Enrique's outraged army and the cardinal who was on Princess Isabel's side forged the pope's permit, which ultimately led to their marriage.
Isabel I was a devout Catholic, so many Arabs were forced to convert or die because he told the Arabs remaining in Spain to choose death unless converted. They even issued deportation orders, which were ignored or killed by the North African Arabs. Some escaped safely to the Ottoman Empire and passed on advanced Granada information to the Ottoman side, which remains the queen's main stain.[4]
On the other hand, he said that indigenous people from the New World are laughable and innocent, and ordered them to be treated like their families. However, Isabel I's orders were not well followed when examining the killing and torture in America after her death. However, the main agents of these actions were the Concistador, and the official position of the Spanish home government was that indigenous people were not slaves but Europeans, and that they should rule and at the same time spread and protect Catholic beliefs, from the Edict of Burgos, which stipulated that the Catholic Church should be protected, to the new 1542 Act, which overturned the Encomyenda system and partial autonomy from Spanish settlers.
But the common misconception is that the 16th-century Conquistador conquest project had never dispatched a central "army" directly controlled by the Spanish government, and was a process in which 100% of the private businesses formed a group of soldiers and stormed in before dedicating "the land and its inhabitants to God and our king."[5] So, for the conquerors, who had already received donations from the business level, they had to do whatever was worth the money, which caused a lot of trouble on purpose.